From Netanyahu mourns ‘one of the great leaders of Israel’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a special cabinet meeting in honor of the late former president Shimon Peres.
“This is the State of Israel’s first day without Shimon Peres, one of the great leaders of Israel,” says Netanyahu.
The prime minister says Peres was “a visionary, a man of peace, and he never stopped seeking peace and believing in peace.”
Netanyahu adds that he shares Peres’s vision on Israeli innovation and his desire for peace with the Palestinians.
The ministers hold a moment of silence for Peres.
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